Order on charge framing against Rony March 6

A court here on Sunday fixed March 6 for passing an order whether to frame charge against Bakhtiar Alam Rony, son of ruling Awami League MP Pinu Khan, or discharge him in a case filed for shooting two people to death in Eskaton area of the capital in April last year.

 

Dhaka Second Additional Metropolitan Session Judge Shamsun Nahar fixed the date after hearing of the two sides.

 

Meanwhile, Kazi Mohammad Nazibullah, lawyer of Rony, filed a discharge petition, reports the UNB.

 

Accused Rony was present during the case hearing.

 

Earlier on February 2, the court deferred, for the fourth time, the charge framing hearing against Rony over illness of the accused.

 

On January 5, the court set February 2 for hearing on charges to be framed against Bakhtiar Alam Rony in the case.

 

Last August 13, a Dhaka court accepted charges against Bakhtiar Alam Rony, in the case.

 

Detective Branch (DB) of police pressed charges against Rony for the double murder on July 21 last.

 

On April 13, 2015, Rony, said to be in an inebriated state, allegedly opened fire on people indiscriminately near Janakantha Bhaban in New Eskaton area from his car, leaving two people— rickshaw-puller Abdul Hakim and Janakantha’s auto-rickshaw driver Yakub— injured with bullets.

 

Hakim succumbed to his injuries at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on April 15 while Yeakub died at the hospital on April 23.

 

On April 15 last year, a case was filed with Ramna Police Station against unidentified people in this connection.

 

Later the law enforcers arrested Rony from his Dhanmondi residence in connection with the firing on June 1, last.